VOLCANO POEMS

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Locksley Hall Sixty Years After

Late, my grandson! half the morning have I paced these sandy tracts,
Watch'd again the hollow ridges roaring into cataracts,

Wander'd back to living boyhood while I heard the curlews call,
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Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson
An Octopus

of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat,
it lies “in grandeur and in mass”
beneath a sea of shifting snow-dunes;
dots of cyclamen-red and maroon on its clearly defined
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Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore
Psalm

1

Be silent with me, as all bells are silent!

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Ingeborg Bachmann
Elegy X

That some day, emerging at last from the terrifying vision
I may burst into jubilant praise to assenting angels!
That of the clear-struck keys of the heart not one may fail
to sound because of a loose, doubtful or broken string!
.....

Rainer Maria Rilke
Progress In The Pacific

Lapp'd in blue Pacific waters lies an isle of green and gold,
A garden of enchantment such as Eden was of old;
And the innocent inhabitants, pure children of the sun,
Resembled those of Eden, tooâ??in more respects than one.
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James Brunton Stephens
Heroism

There was a time when Ã?tna's silent fire
Slept unperceived, the mountain yet entire;
When, conscious of no danger from below,
She tower'd a cloud-capt pyramid of snow.
.....
William Cowper

William Cowper
The Strangest Creature On Earth

You're like a scorpion, my brother,
you live in cowardly darkness
like a scorpion.
You're like a sparrow, my brother,
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Nazim Hikmet
Duino Elegies: The Tenth Elegy

That some day, emerging at last from the terrifying vision
I may burst into jubilant praise to assenting angels!
That of the clear-struck keys of the heart not one may fail
to sound because of a loose, doubtful or broken string!
.....

Rainer Maria Rilke
Desire

The first time I saw you
I didn't really like you
For the reason that
I am afraid to love you
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Lynda

Lynda
A Still'volcano'life

601

A still-Volcano-Life-
That flickered in the night-
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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson
The Reticent Volcano Keeps

1748

The reticent volcano keeps
His never slumbering plan-
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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson
The Bonfire

“Oh, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves,
As reckless as the best of them to-night,
By setting fire to all the brush we piled
With pitchy hands to wait for rain or snow.
.....
Robert Frost

Robert Frost
Pauline Part I

To the memory of my devoted wife dead and gone yet always with me I dedicate

PAULINE

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Hanford Lennox Gordon
Ode

I

IMAGINATION--ne'er before content,
But aye ascending, restless in her pride
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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
A Postcard From The Volcano

Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;

.....

Wallace Stevens
Climbing You

I want to understand the steep thing
that climbs ladders in your throat.
I can't make sense of you.
Everywhere I look you're there--
.....

Erica Jong
On My Volcano Grows The Grass

1677

On my volcano grows the Grass
A meditative spot-
.....
Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson
The Captain's Story

“Well, comrades, let us fight one battle more;
Let the cock crow-we'll guard the camp till morn.
And-since the singers and the merry ones
Are hors de combat-fill the cups again;
.....

Hanford Lennox Gordon
Chant To Bolivar

Our Father thou art in Heaven,
in water, in air
in all our silent and broad latitude
everything bears your name, Father in our dwelling:
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Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda
The Steppe

How lovely those journeys into quiet!
Boundless the steppe, like a seascape,
ants rustle, and the feather-grass sighs,
mosquitoes go whining through space.
.....
Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak
To Alex. Cunningham, Esq., Writer, Edinburgh

MY godlike friendâ??nay, do not stare,
You think the phrase is odd-like;
But "God is love," the saints declare,
Then surely thou art god-like.
.....
Robert Burns

Robert Burns
Night-fliers

THE birds that soar break space
Like heavy bodies hurled!
Not so the birds of night
They move as in a sphere
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Padraic Colum

Padraic Colum
Don't Stir My Calm Water

Don't stir my calm water
There is an active volcano
Ready to erupt
Inside of me.
.....

Rose Marie Juan Austin
Shipwrecked's Island

An orphan of shipwreck
I'm in a gardenless land,
without laboured soil,
one island that a volcano laid waste
.....

Clark Ashton Smith
L'amour Supreme

Among the great ennuis, and great longings laid in ashes,
One only loves flames evermore in me.
Such an old volcano, with ever-mounting fire,
In an aging world whereon the night descends.
.....

Clark Ashton Smith
The Missionary. Canto First.

Argument.

One Day and Part of Night.

.....

William Lisle Bowles
Sonnet To A Stilton Cheese

Stilton, thou shouldst be living at this hour
And so thou art. Nor losest grace thereby;
England has need of thee, and so have I--
She is a Fen. Far as the eye can scour,
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Problem

I like a church, I like a cowl,
I love a prophet of the soul,

And on my heart monastic aisles
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Ladies

I've taken my fun where I've found it;
I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time;
I've 'ad my pickin' o' sweet'earts,
An' four o' the lot was prime.
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Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling
Don Juan - Canto The Tenth.

When Newton saw an apple fall, he found
In that slight startle from his contemplation -
'T is said (for I 'll not answer above ground
For any sage's creed or calculation) -
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George Gordon Byron
The Island - Canto The Third.

I.

The fight was o'er; the flashing through the gloom,
Which robes the cannon as he wings a tomb,
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George Gordon Byron
The Prophecy Of Dante

Canto The First.

Once more in Man's frail world! which I had left
So long that 'twas forgotten; and I feel
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George Gordon Byron
The Haunted House

Suggested by a drawing of Thomas Moran, the American painter.

This must be the very night!
The moon knows it!-and the trees!
.....
George Macdonald

George Macdonald
1827; Or, The Poet's Last Poem

Ye Bards in all your thousand dens,
Great souls with fewer pence than pens,
Sublime adorers of Apollo,
With folios full, and purses hollow;
.....
Thomas Gent

Thomas Gent
Kitchen Poem

An Elegy for Tristan Tzara

In the hungry kitchen
The dog sings for its dinner.
.....

Francis Scarfe
Napoleon

Angel or demon! thou,â??whether of light
The minister, or darknessâ??still dost sway
This age of ours; thine eagle's soaring flight
Bears us, all breathless, after it away.
.....

Victor Marie Hugo
The Columbiad: Book Iii

The Argument


Actions of the Inca Capac. A general invasion of his dominions threatened by the mountain savages. Rocha, the Inca's son, sent with a few companions to offer terms of peace. His embassy. His adventure with the worshippers of the volcano. With those of the storm, on the Andes. Falls in with the savage armies. Character and speech of Zamor, their chief. Capture of Rocha and his companions. Sacrifice of the latter. Death song of Azonto. War dance. March of the savage armies down the mountains to Peru. Incan army meets them. Battle joins. Peruvians terrified by an eclipse of the sun, and routed. They fly to Cusco. Grief of Oella, supposing the darkness to be occasioned by the death of Rocha. Sun appears. Peruvians from the city wall discover Roch an altar in the savage camp. They march in haste out of the city and engage the savages. Exploits of Capac. Death of Zamor. Recovery of Rocha, and submission of the enemy.
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Joel Barlow
Night-scene In Genoa

In Genoa, when the sunset gave
Its last warm purple to the wave,
No sound of war, no voice of fear,
Was heard, announcing danger near:
.....
Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Mount Erebus: (a Fragment)

A MIGHTY theatre of snow and fire,
Girt with perpetual Winter, and sublime
By reason of that lordly solitude
Which dwells for ever at the worldâ??s white ends;
.....

Henry Kendall
Ode To A Child

BRIGHT as a morn of spring,
That jubilates along the earth,
With clouds, and winds, and flowers rejoicing,
And all the creatures that on wing
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Mathilde Blind
Napoleon

I

Cannon his name,
Cannon his voice, he came.
.....
George Meredith

George Meredith
For Molly, Concerning God

Is God the one who eats the meat
off the bones of dead people?
-Molly Miranda Jong-Fast, age 3 1/2

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Erica Jong
Ferdinando And Elvira

PART I.

At a pleasant evening party I had taken down to supper
One whom I will call ELVIRA, and we talked of love and TUPPER,
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William Schwenck Gilbert
The White Goddess

All saints revile her, and all sober men
Ruled by the God Apollo's golden mean -
In scorn of which we sailed to find her
In distant regions likeliest to hold her
.....
Robert Graves

Robert Graves
The Lion For Real

"Soyez muette pour moi, Idole contemplative..."


I came home and found a lion in my living room
.....

Allen Ginsberg
Charles Edward At Versailles

ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF CULLODEN


Take away that star and garter-
.....

William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Metempsychosis

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

ST. JOHN _a Presidential Candidate_
MCDONALD _a Defeated Aspirant_
.....

Ambrose Bierce
American Academy Centennial Celebration

MAY 26, 1880

SIRE, son, and grandson; so the century glides;
Three lives, three strides, three foot-prints in the sand;
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Regret For The Departure Of Friends

As smoke from a volcano soars in the air,
The soul of man discontent mounts from a sigh,
Exhaled as to heaven in mystical prayer,
Invoking that love which forbids him to die.
.....

George Moses Horton
1985

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth
the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in
the blood of the wicked. Psalm 58

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Brooks Haxton